[linux-audio-user] Can you record with OSS & Esssolo1?

[John Check]

On Saturday 07 August 2004 04:54 pm, jmacdermott at ns2.i-mecca.net wrote:
> Another, hopefully not too obscure, question...
>
> I have a Fedore Core 1 system that I'd like to record radio programs with. 
> I found a great little program, RadioCap
> (http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/radiocap_homepage/), that will do just
> that.  It listens to /dev/dsp for its input.
>
> FC1 uses OSS as default, and for the soundcard in this particular machine
> it was working fine using the ESSSOLO1 driver.  When I plug the radio into
> my mic or line-in ports and unmute the channels, I can hear the radio
> through the PC's speakers.  But no input level shows on RadioCap.  I did a
> few tests with XMMS, etc., and it certainly seems to be using /dev/dsp for
> sound.
>
> Is this a sound card problem?  If I can hear the input, shouldn't it be
> able to record it?
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Do you have the OSS emulation layer installed? 
Does Fedora use devfs, udev or is  it normal?

>
> Thanks,
> Jay